Young Black Jack

Young Black Jack, ヤング ブラック・ジャック, Young Black Jack

Episodes: 12 / 12

Type: TV

Plot Summary: In the 1960s, a gifted young medical student tries to make a name for himself. Kuroo Hazama is a reserved young man with unusual black-and-white hair, a body covered with scars, and a dark past. Despite only being a medical student, his surgical brilliance starts to attract attention after he completes a seemingly impossible operation. Together with the spirited and honest intern Maiko Okamoto and Yabu, a close friend with a troubled life, Hazama devotes himself to the world of medicine. However, his path to becoming a respectable surgeon is a difficult one as student riots, war, and corruption are consuming Japan. Hazama quickly finds himself caught up in a series of nefarious circumstances that challenge his integrity as a person and his path towards becoming a surgeon. Young Black Jack chronicles the story of a man capable of performing unthinkable feats of medicine, and the journey that leads him to become the legend known as Black Jack.

Genre: Drama, Historical, Medical, Seinen

Studios: Tezuka Productions

Producers: TBS, Grooove, Being

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Type: TV

Released: Oct 2, 2015 to Dec 18, 2015

Country: Japan

Status: Finished

Tags: #Politics, #Historical, #Primarily Adult Cast, #Medicine, #Male Protagonist, #Foreign, #College, #War, #Episodic, #Disability, #Seinen, #Tragedy, #Gore, #Survival